Wednesday, December 08, 2021

Democracy vs. Plutocracy: Behind Every Great Fortune Lies a Great Crime

With Thom Hartmann, Stacy Mitchell, and Maurice BP-Weeks

In this first part of a two-part program, we travel back and forth in time to explore the battle between democracy and plutocracy that goes back to the very founding of the United States.

The extreme concentration of corporate power and the prevalence of monopoly are indeed inarguable. If the solution is once again to throw the tea in the harbor, what does that look like in the 21st century?

In today’s new Gilded Age of rule by the wealthy, rising anti-trust movements are challenging the stranglehold of corporate monopoly.

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